Modern Canada
Chapter 4 of 10 in the official guide, Discover Canada (“Modern Canada”). This summary is ours: it does not replace the guide.
After 1945, Canada changed quickly: its place in the world, its rights, its culture and its inventions are all part of the test.
Canada in the world
- Canada was a founding member of the United Nations in 1945 and of NATO in 1949.
A changing society
- 1960: Indigenous people get the right to vote in federal elections.
- The 1960s: Quebec goes through an era of rapid change, the Quiet Revolution.
- 1969: the Official Languages Act requires federal services in English and French across the country.
Culture, sport and inventions
- The Group of Seven, founded in 1920, paints the rugged wilderness; Emily Carr paints the West Coast.
- In 1980, Terry Fox starts the Marathon of Hope to raise money for cancer research.
- Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best discover insulin.
- Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone, Joseph-Armand Bombardier the snowmobile, and Sir Sandford Fleming devises standard time zones.
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Modern Canada
Who discovered insulin, a treatment for diabetes that has saved millions of lives?
Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin, a treatment for diabetes that has saved millions of lives around the world.
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B. Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best Sir Frederick Banting and Charles Best discovered insulin, a treatment for diabetes that has saved millions of lives around the world.
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What was the “Quiet Revolution”?
In the 1960s, Quebec went through an era of rapid change known as the Quiet Revolution.
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D. An era of rapid change in Quebec in the 1960s In the 1960s, Quebec went through an era of rapid change known as the Quiet Revolution.